Lepanthes debilis Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Leaf and Flower

Photos by © Esteban Dominguez Vargas and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

LATE EARLIER

Common Name The Weak Lepanthes [refers to the plant habit]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1850 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with very slender, weak, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 9, thin, tight fitting, lepanthiform sheaths with minimmally dilated ostia with microscopically scabrous margins and carrying a single, apical, more or less spreading, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, long-acuminate, prominently tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on a filiform, congested, distichous, .44" [1.1 cm] long, including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf and has lightly muriculate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 pg 169 1988 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide

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